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Defence Viewpoints has been reproducing a series of detailed analyses about the drugs cartels in Mexico, their lethal habits, and the impact on the United States, for more than a year. They include:

- Mexico : the war with the cartels December 2009
- La Familia north of the border December 2009
- Mexico : the emergence of an unexpected threat October 2009
- Confidential informants : a double edged sword August 2009
- The role of the Mexican military in the cartel wars August 2009
- Mexico : economics and the arms trade August 2009
- A counter-intelligence approach to controlling drugs June 2009
- Central America's emerging role in the drugs trade April 2009
- Mexican lawlessness spreads March 2009
- The third Mexican war March 2009
- Mexico's drug cartels December 2008
- US prison gangs and Mexico's drug cartels November 2008
- The criminal gangs of Mexico and their weapons November 2008

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